Improvement in registering liquor-faucets



W, WILLIAMS. Registering Liquor-Faucet.

Patented July 1., 1879.

I g aaz/h f-zi N PETERS, PHOTO-UT UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OF HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGISTERING LIQUOR-FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,990, dated July 1,1879; application filed May 21, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM \VILLIAMs, of Huntingdon, in the county ofHuntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Registering Liquor-Faucets; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawing, making a part of this specification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

.The drawing is a representation of a perspective of my registeringliquor-faucet.

My invention relates to a register adapted to be applied to beer-barrelsand the like; and the novelty consists in the construction andarrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, andpointed out in the claim.

In the vertical valve-stem of the cock I place or form a cam-groove,which is provided with notches, with abrupt shoulders on one side. andthese notches allow the cock to be turned only in one direction. Intothe cam-groove ope ates a lever, pivoted near its center, andthisobtains avertical reciprocating rectilinear motion upon the otherend of the lever, which end is connected by suitable means and deviceswith two or more dials above. A lid, hinged, covers the dial'plates.

A bracket adapted to receive the glass under the exit is suspended fromthe pipe, and it prevents the drawing of several glasses at oneregister.

The cock can only be turned in one direction, and after the spring hasforced the pivoted lever or rock-shaft up into one of the notches, andthe liquor is running, such flow of liquor can only be stopped bycontinuing the turn of the cock in the same direction until the leverengages the next notch, when the valve is in a closed condition, and theliquor ceases to flow. My device is arranged so as to register justbefore the liquor commences to flow.

If the liquor is drawn by air-pressure or the like, and the exit-cock isdistant from the barrel, the bracket may be attached in any manner whichwill serve to prevent more than one glass being under the cock at atime. The bracket holds but one.

A vertical slot leads from the circumferential slot downward and out, toallow the withdrawal of the male cock-stem.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the exit-pipe,the end a beingadapted to be driven into the barrel, cask, or the like, and the end aserving as a free exit. It has the usual socket for the valve-stem B,which is of ordinary construction except that the body thereof above isprovided with a circumferential cam-groove, B, having notches I), withabrupt shoulders in one direction, and with a vertical slot, b, asshown, leading from the circumferential slot B.

A lever, O, pivoted near the center in a standard, A, upon the pipe A,serves as a register-bar. One end works in the cam-groove B the other isconnected to dialplates or by an y suitable known mechanism. (Notshown.) This lever has a vertical motion, and is held in close contactwith the notches b by a spring, D. A bracket, E, adapted to hold but oneglass at a time, is hung from the exit-pipe directly under the exitaperture.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The valve-stem B, having cam-slot B, with notches b, and a verticalslot, 1), in combination with a registering device and connect ingmechanism, as set forth.

2. The combination of the stop A B B I) b, lever O, and spring D with aregistering device, as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

HENRY GLAZIER, O. H. GLAZIER.

